News of Gambling Addiction Forum

Even though GA does not reccomend filing bankruptcy I am. I tried through a debt consolidation company to pay my debts off for a year and a half at a monthly rate that was equal to my rent. They were ripping me off in that they were letting my cards just charge off versus making payment to them. I ended up having to pay taxes on those cards. They paid off a few. I am ...

This needed to be done glad they are doing this to help not only with a problem gambling but also for younger people, Australia.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-0 ... ed/8502524

I have lost my urge to gamble completely. I self excluded but I can gamble online or buy scratchers. I am so horrified by my gambling addiction that I have lost all desire. I am sickened by what I have done over the years. I am 35k in debt. I am going to GA and therapy around my addiction but I have lost all desire. The desire stopped after my last gambling event two weeks ...

When the thought hits me, I try to post subjects on this forum that will help others to see how we get sucked into gambling, in the hopes that we can get out of what is a miserable, messy, and ultimately destructive trap.
I have told before of my past when I was a youngster, how gambling looked like great fun and amusement;
from the earliest times when I was a tyke watching people playing ...

Imagine you had to sell the idea of gambling to your younger self in a presentation, it might look something like this

•will make you depressed
•will ruin most of your relationships
•will make you lie to everyone
•will put you in serious debt
•could ruin your career
•will make you anxious
•will make you suicidal
•will make you a recluse
•YOU WILL NEVER WIN

Imagine doing this on a powerpoint to your younger self ...

Let's say that someone would give you all the money required to gamble as much as you wanted to, yet the "catch" is that you had to gamble it all, and that you could keep none of your winnings. Who would do this? Probably not many of us. It sounds like a waste of time. To go the casino and play the games hour after hour, it would seem like we were kids at a ...

Prior to the last few weeks, I had been on quite on a roll, as they say, over the previous 8 months. My game is blackjack and I would go to a local casino 3 or 4 times a month to play for 4 to 10 hours a session. With some card counting and a bit of luck, I just kept winning and winning for months on end to where I was up $30k. Biggest ...

Been on here for years now.. been gambling for over 5 years and now im 24.. been working a #######5 part time job.. parents begging me to finwlly go to school.. never rewlly got thwt bad with gambling until recently, just logged on my bank website and saw a nice -25k credit card debt, and another 20k one.. followed by a nice 5000$ overdraft in my only chequings account.. lmao.. i cant do anything but ...

Just reading through the latest posts, I was reminded of another lie I used to tell myself and I'm sure others have done it as well..........You lose a lot of money and you think that if you could only win it back, you would quit gambling........it's a LIE.....even if you win it back, you won't quit....I've done it before.....what's worse is if you don't win it back, you lose more and more until the losses ...

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I do some work for one of the top addiction centers in America. The most difficult addiction is gambling, is the only one where you can WIN. Can’t win from drugs or booze but that Next race, hand of cards, etc you can win. Only addiction with a plus side.
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I find the above statement ironic but also to be so true. The wining is a trap and only fuel the desire to ...